Background
He was son of the Uruguayan lawyer and writer Luis Melián Lafinur and also the second cousin of writer Jorge Luis Borges.
He was son of the Uruguayan lawyer and writer Luis Melián Lafinur and also the second cousin of writer Jorge Luis Borges.
In 1910, while working at the Spanish newspaper El País, he published Borges" work, a translation of Oscar Wilde"s The Happy Prince, for the first time.